Why was a new multilingual encoder needed? XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) has dominated multilingual NLP for more than 5 years, an unusually long reign in AI research. While encoder-only models like BERT and RoBERTa were central to early progress, most research energy shifted toward decoder-based generative models. Encoders, however, remain more efficient and often outperform decoders on […]
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